Hokkaido to Tokyo by Shinkansen GranClass | First Class Service
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 พ.ย. 2023
- GranClass offers the best service and seats on the Shinkansen for only 18 passengers. I'm taking it from Hokkaido to Tokyo.
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the notification ringtone of tohoku shinkansen always comforts me, i use it as my ringtone on my phone!
"it's coupled. I'm single." LOL! Nice one! Even though it was labled "Western" finding roasted green tea is pretty rare in the US. Which is sad, because I love hojicha. It's second only to Tieguanyin, aka Iron Goddess tea, in my heart. The Shinkansen looked AMAZING! I took the train down to New Orleans and it was NOTHING like that. But, I brought enough snacks for five people!
As someone from New Orleans the thought of comparing anything in New Orleans to Japan is hilarious to me 😂
@@parmenides2576 I was talking about the train. Spec, The City of New Orleans. But I see your point, even tho I ❤NOLA
The entire "Western" meal seemed more Japanese than Western
Pretty sure the “western” option was referring to WESTERN Japan Fare. Not The West, like the USA.
As in what people who live on the west side of Japan normally eat.
He was a voyeur...
That underwater tunnel from Hokkaido to Honshu is still so cool to me.
I did that ride in 1995. It took my breath away.
Fun fact: the Shinkansen has to slow down in the tunnel otherwise the amount of air it can displace at full speed can be powerful enough to topple over freight trains.
Very nice train ride. You know it's luxury when you get two tables.
That light meal was extremely light 😅
It was like, 4 bites of food and 2 bites of cake.
Another very pleasant video. That beef bento looked good!!
My life goal is to visit Japan someday, and I WILL ride the GranClass. 😎 Thanks for another great video STJ!
After spending several thousand USD for the flight, this will be considered cheap.
@@IdeI2StOnEd I'm not entirely sure I'll fly.
Depending on where you live, Zipair is the cheapest flights I have seen. I live in Los Angeles and, if I buy tickets far enough in advance, they are around $400 for economy / $1200 for first class. They only fly into Tokyo so you can do the GranClass. Overall, I'd recommend this Japanese cheap airline company. Also, when you go to Japan, a wonderful way to get to other islands is riding an overnight ferries. The ferry food is really good and port cities are always wonderful to see.
Thank you for your videos STJ. It’s a pure joy to watch your productions!
Thanks for the video! I am headed to Hokkaido for a race this summer. I didn't know this was even a potential option.
Go ekiben go! I would do the same thing. From the few ekiben left in the shop I bet everyone else was just as hungry as you were. Very thoughtful they also wrote the emiben type in English.
After a long day at work, watching your videos is always relaxing and reminds me of past travels.
This was great and the train was very beautiful. The meal was VERY light!
That was a real interesting travel vlog. Your choice of foods looked delicious. Can’t wait for your next vlog.
Thank you Solo Travel, very cool!
Haha love this videos its awesome and the mountains so beautiful
Just got back from 14 days in Japan. Had Curry with tonkatsu. SO much better than here in the States. Thank you. We had so much fun and fell in love with Japan. ❤🎉
I love your videos.
Your way of seeing the world is so awesome. I really enjoy every minute of it!
Hello from Singapore 🇸🇬
When I visit Japan, I’m definitely gonna be riding the Shinkansen a fair bit, as I’d like to visit 3 or 4 cities during a 3 week trip, and for these prices, I think I gotta try the Gran Class! First class service for the cost of an economy class flight, or a non-high speed train ticket at peak season prices here in the UK! The bullet train system continues to lead the way and outshine everything we’ve got here :)
Nice trip Solo Travel San Thanks for the nice calm trip. God Bless and Be Safe.
When the train goes through the tunnel, how do you all hold your breath for 22 minutes without fainting?
So fast
Haha 🤣
Great Shinkansen ride.
Oh man!! That traffic in Sapporo at the beginning looked like a free-for-all!! 😮
When I saw that light lunch, I also laughed! That was a snack, not a lunch! Travelling by air, you get a larger meal, so what if you can get booze! So you are correct in saying Plan, Plan, Plan and use a lower class seat for this train.
That beef bento is the first bento I've seen that i could actually eat. Very nice train . I agree that 4 bites does not make a light meal.❤
Love it. I would have ordered more drinks😉
Solo - San had a very enjoyable train trip.!
I haven't bought one of those bento boxes in a train platform store before. I'll have to try it next time I take the Shinkansen.
I plan on going the opposite way as this video some day. I really miss riding the Shinkansen and eating Ekiben...it's wild to think that going from Sapporo Eki to Shin-Hakodate Eki takes almost as much time as going from Shin-Hakodate Eki to Tokyo Eki.
That menu is top notch!
That small meal from the train looks nice but I would be starving. Thanks for the small anxiety when you left the train to buy ekiben 😆When you said after the trains coupled "I'm single", sorry but I had to lol, welcome to a tranquil and almost stress free life STJ ;)
Great trip. To be honest, i always mix up the place between Tsuruga and Tsugaru. They coupled, I'm single is make me laugh and realising i'm also single. Thankfully you still got ekiben, and yeah still got the coupling of two Shinkansen.
Wow! I also ride the same Shinkansen as you!
Wish you have a coupled travel Japan channel soon🎉
Very nice!
You know which car is close to the shop? That's real dedication to detail. Edit: oops - spoke too soon.😁
I hope i get to travel to Japan one day. Honestly to see the sights yes but to mainly eat... The food there looks amazing!! Lol
I never had a bad meal in Japan and lived there for a few years. Even the convenience store food is yummy.
Right!!?? Even the food out of vending machines or in a box look amazing!!
Wow nice video ❤❤
Keep sharing sir
A good trip, no wonder your dozed off after that cocktail of drinks lol - hope no hangover 🤞
Awe, the memories it brings ❤
Thanks for sharing
Thanks
Thanks for the super!
I havent watch in ages and i miss your videos so muchhhhh now i can binge watch✨✨
Question, how do you know if the shinkansen will stop for a longer duration that will be enough to step out to buy ekiben? Is there actually an announcement?
Being prepared with food before the whole ride is what i wld do but u know sometimes things happen and u cld end up not having the time to buy food🥲
I'd love to do this while I'm in Japan, but it's so much cheaper and more convenient to take a domestic flight from Tokyo to Sapporo or the other way. The green car is probably more comfortable though
It's such a long ride, but in winter also such a beautiful ride when there is snow.
Still need to try out the Gran Class. Maybe on a day trip to Sendai I might spring the extra money for the Gran Class on the way back to Tokyo just to enjoy all the luxury for once. 🤔
That is serene and good Japan service :)
그것은 고요하고 좋은 일본 열차 서비스입니다 :)
First class beautiful
there are two countries on my bucket list
Japan and USA.
And damm , i must say , Japan looks utterly beautifull .
Nice train
Poor Solo - that was not near enough food for you! I think even I might have gotten pretty peckish. Gosh - 22 minutes in a tunnel going almost 200mph...that's an awfully long tunnel, I'm amazed! My ma, who hates tunnels, would definitely not approve. I gotta say, half an hour in one might be a bit much for me! That's wild.
Do the ferry companies allow you to show the vehicle/truck transport areas of the ferry? It would be interesting to see how many vehicles are transported per the trips. Thank you for your interesting and entertaining videos.
Cool 😎
ЯПОНИЯ ПОЕЗД БУДУЮЩЕГО...ВСЕ НА КНОПАЧКАХ..КОМФОРТ..МОЛОДЦЫ...БРАВО...🎉🎉🎉🎉🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌷🌷🌷🌷🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Oh gorgeous. Yeah, the food is apparently only soso--though all that Western stuff was, as mentioned, pretty exotic even to a Western person! XD--i might well choose Gran Class just to be sure that I'd have comfortable accommodations as a disabled person!
Nice, unlimited drink😁
Japanilaiset tekevät erittäin mielenkiintoisia matkailuvideoita (kuten tämäkin video), mutta yhtä asiaa olen aina ihmetellyt, että miten he pystyvät syömään aina niin paljon
:D
Are you Finnish?
@@debbiecurtis4021 Yes :) ..and you?
I don't know about the rest of Japan, but Solo-San would earn that country a gold medal at Eating Olympics or World Championships!
They are coupled. I'm single.😂 It's okay STJ, curry rice is your best wife🍛
finally,,, your drinking something good,, wine.
Don't worry, you'll eventually find someone to be coupled with ^^
Looks fantastic, but I’m ok with just the Reserved seats on the Hayabusa 😂
Grand class, ‘Tis’ grand.
My friend, it's so good to see another amazing video be safe much love have fun for me
@18:33 "they are going to be coupled. I'm single" bwhwhahahaha
Nice! I was wondering how you would get from Hokkaido to Honshu......
we took the shinkansen from Tokyo to Aomori return a couple months ago - with a couple of side trips on the way back - very nice - green car seats looked like old-fashioned lounge chairs with electric recliners and footrests were slightly short for this six footer - my feet would end up pressed against the back of the seat in front. GranClass looks nicer seats but more expensive so meh. Definitely a way to travel at least once for the experience.
Oh yeah - our north-bound train started with the red and green cars joined - red split off at Morioka for Akita I think - green continued north - so you got the reverse sequence.
i laughed when you said train copled and im single hahahaha
Some of those train platform shops could probably do a fair amount of business if they either delivered meals to people during the stops, or had them ready for quick pickup. You'd likely have to pay in advance of course, but it could work. Especially when you've only got a few minutes per stop!
You can do that at certain train stations in Japan. It certainly beats the old way of throwing money out the window of the train car and getting bentos through the open windows!
There's also a food trolley selling bentos onboard for the regular seating passengers onboard that particular Hayabusa.
So many free drinks included in the price! Too bad there wasn't any curry! 😂
What a mammoth machine.
Awwe solo not going un sun flower to Hokkaido? lol😂 jk love the video
Beautiful ❤
Bro’s trip from Hakodate to Tokyo was filled with luxury
Meanwhile when I went the trains were so full we had to stand around in the halls for 4 hours ;-;
Tnaks for the video! Questions is "GranClass" available only for northern routes or is there something alike also for southern (towards Osaka and maybe Kyushu)???
Presumably they couldn't make an economic case or profit for running GranClass services or seats on those routes. Already on the Kyushu Shinkansen, green class seating is limited.
always curious on why was the shinkasen got attached to another train?? hehe i saw it also happens to other trains in other videos of your trip..
Wow! You sure drank a lot. I wouldn’t be able to walk after that. It looked like a comfortable ride, but there wasn’t enough food. Was there a dining car? Thank you for sharing the experience. From N Carolina, USA
Woww. Is this a special class ??
03:05 both E5 and H5 in one shot, very nice!
For some unexplicable reason I prefer the JR Hokkoaido's H5 even though from the point of view of the passenger they're the same :)
Japan is so service perfet minded
".... they are coupled. I'm Single." 😂😂😂
Wow it looks like a train from final fantasy 😗
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Im single had me howling 😂
Hello Solo. Can one bring inside the Gran Class bento box and drinks?
Oh thank god we got an EKIBEN!! I was worried of starvation. Phew.
Solo-san! You also like watching Formula races?? If so, would you want to watch a race in the future?
Japan is so far ahead of the US in tech and well just about everything.
Are the food and drinks included in the price?
I can't believe you drank all of those different beverages. I hope you weren't sick later.
18:45 hahaha good one lmao
So it took almost as long to get from Sapporo to Shin-Hokkaido station, as it did to go from Shin-Hokkaido to Tokyo!
Are there plans to extend the Shinkansen to Sapporo? Or do not enough people make the trip for it to be worthwhile?
Oops, I mean Shin-Hakodate
@@djackmanson Yup, the extension work is underway it's expected to be completed by end of 2030.
Jep they are currently building that extension. It seems to run behind schedule so it will be still a while until it is open.
I did that journey once from Tokyo to Sapporo, but had an overnight stop in Hakodate because 8 hours of train rides in one day is a bit much. Especially after ariving on the same day via a 12 hour flight.
I would say it's a nice journey to do once.
At first, I wondered why it took so long to reach Hakodate from Sapporo; I had taken a train from Chitose to Sapporo in 2005 that took only 30 minutes. Then I realized I was confusing Hakodate with Tomakomai, which is about 25 to 30 minutes south of Chitose, while one must go completely around Uchiura Bay to reach Hakodate. I need to brush up on my geography…
I always have the same problem with mistemembering geographic "acquaintances"!
mmmmm Pound cake. :)
I would love to do that trip if it wasn’t for the long tunnel under the sea! 😬
Not so different to the channel tunnel between the UK and France 🤷♂️
@@paulthiel5145and I avoid that one too, thanks very much! I prefer flying and have been flying to the UK since 1971 it was 737-200 then , been to the UK by car several times but always by ferry and once by hovercraft never the tunnel. 😂
@@bokhans millions of people use the tunnel on a yearly basis and most come out on the other side relatively unscathed. I think you would be fine 😂
Honestly, I thought the Gran Class seats would be more spacious but it looked a bit cramped considering the space between one seat and the one in front. I guess that is because the chairs don't recline into beds which is why it looked cramped.
Does this train go from Tokyo to Sapporo?
So what was the 4th dish?
I took the plane due to the scary leaking underwater tunnel you need to pass through to get from the island of Hokkaido to the mainland Japan . 😬
the cinema chair is as good.
At first I thought the gift bag was a barf bag
I liked the single joke lol